Thursday, July 07, 2016

Hey Look - It's the No-lympics

In two weeks Chicago would be hosting the world if it had won its bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Instead, the city lost to Rio de Janeiro, which some are saying is a victory in and of itself.

Rio's governor has declared a "state of calamity," a financial emergency, ahead of the games. A promised subway line isn't complete. There are major concerns about crime and health.

It could have been Chicago. In 2008 there was enthusiasm in the city, as even the newly-elected President Obama campaigned on behalf of the bid.

[...] That energy and enthusiasm would be snuffed out in a stunning first-round defeat just months later. The bulk of Chicago's Olympic bid was paid for with private money and Mayor Daley promised no taxpayer money. But there was one glaring exception that remains an eyesore to this day: the Michael Reese Hospital campus.

The campus would have become an athletes' village if Chicago had won the bid. The city hasn't been able to sell it in the past eight years. Mayor Daley put taxpayers on the hook for $91 million and it won't be paid in full until 2024.

Daley's buddies still made a bunch of money, even as pension funds and other non-connected types took a bath. You can re-live the moment Chicago dodged most of the damage here:

That was a particularly amusing day seeing Daley realize he got played by people he considered amateurs. Those yokels took his gifts, political capital and dignity, and then pants-ed him on international television. Poor Richie thought that when people got bought, they stayed bought. He forgot that there were three other kleptocracies with far fewer scruples competing for the same corrupt pie.

Not getting the Olympics was the best thing that ever could have happened to this wholly corrupt Potemkin Village plopped on topof a cemetery dug out of a swamp...

High water table... All manner of ghastly grinnerspercolating out of the ground and Rahm The Lick-Hitterfloats on rarefied air and doesn't have to suffer the indignity of stubbing a toe on a modern day interpretationof a Bog Man.

"DOWNTOWN IS BOOMING!"(At the expense of the tax-paying areas.Gotta keep the campaign contributors happy.)

What was that movie with "Rowdy Roddy" Piperand Keith David back int eh early 80's?Alien M/Fers on Earth wearing stolen human skinand all the billboards have subliminal messages...

"Spend""Consume""Breed"

&c.

Forsaken by God and decent, lawabiding men this city is.

Every man for himself.According to his conscienceand that which he thinks will enable him to stand before his Godin favorable judgement...

Meanwhile...All the smart M/Fers are worrying about how to "make those coppersshow activity" when said activityhas been demonstrated to be a hazard to the health, well being and personal finances of Policemen. Only...

Everybody pointing a misdirected accusatory finger is fat, sassy,has no fears, cares or concerns and is full of more shit than aGarfield Park goose.

You got that right, the Olympic Committee Members and their families are all remarkably well off. Even the representatives from the "People's Democratic Republics" were rich. I wonder how that happened?

we dodged a bullet and cut the mayor's insider cronies out, saving millions, We should have turned Michael Reese into a homeless shelter. Each room had a bed and bathroom, with on site kitchen and plenty of land. oh well too late now

Daley, no stranger to corruption went there with bags of cash! Apparently the cash was taken, and he got nothing in return. In recent years we have seen how international sports are corrupt and for sale to the the highest bidder. Richie with his Gangsta Hat didn't fool anyone there; they could see he was bullshit. Another Wannabe Tough Guy; sort of like Rahm. Stay Fetal, Stay Fetal; Baby"G"

We dodged the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art too which was going to be a boondoggle money pit for Chicago, a tribute to huge ego Lucas and Rahm's legacy. Father Michael Pfleger laments how inner-city children have been robbed of their right to see Norman Rockwell paintings (really?)and compared Chicago's Friends of the Park to Gangster Disciples. The Olympics in Rio are turning into a nightmare, and I'm relieved we dodged that bullet too.

As a proud alumnus of Milwaukee's Marquette University, note that both of the Bulls starting guards are also Marquette alumni:JIMMY BUTLER and now DWYANE WADE.

Ring Out Ahoya with a M.U. Rah Rah for the #1 Catholic "party school" in the nation. Hell, we had keggers on weekdays up in BrewTown. UW-Madison Badger keggers were only on weekends.

Prost!

7/07/2016 04:05:00 AM

No one cares. You're not in college anymore. OMG! Keggers on weekdays? You crazy bastards! How old are you now, and why are you bragging about college parties from your past? You don't realize it, but you sound pathetic.

I still remember the day. It was a pleasure watching all of the yuppies in tears, Olympics face paint streaming down. A collective cheer went up from the cops. Thank God we didn't get that bullshit put over here. The best part was Daley and Obama getting screwed. Those arrogant pricks needed it.

we dodged a bullet and cut the mayor's insider cronies out, saving millions, We should have turned Michael Reese into a homeless shelter. Each room had a bed and bathroom, with on site kitchen and plenty of land. oh well too late now

7/07/2016 06:51:00 AM

I like your idea. Imagine all the burglaries, retail thefts, drunken disturbances, etc. that we could avoid if the homeless weren't out there committing crimes. The drug dealers wouldn't have any customers. It would be amazing. Wait... you did mean we should fill Michael Reese with the homeless and then knock it all down, right?

Cheryl Burton was commenting about the sense of loss 'we all felt' when Chicago was eliminated. Well, maybe for the cocktail party set, of which Cheryl is one, but for the rest of us, the destruction of our recreation areas, the upheaval, the COST, are no loss at all. SHE may have felt a sense of loss, but most of us heaved a huge sigh of relief. Hundreds of millions of dollars, all for a two-week party. Stupidity in its purest form.

And Rio - crime, sewage, Zika viruses, unfinished stadiums and subway lines ...the Brazilians of my acquaintance won't even talk about it, they just sigh, shake their heads and move on to something more promising, like Dilma Rousseff's impeachment.

we dodged a bullet and cut the mayor's insider cronies out, saving millions, We should have turned Michael Reese into a homeless shelter. Each room had a bed and bathroom, with on site kitchen and plenty of land. oh well too late now

7/07/2016 06:51:00 AM

Dodged a bullet? By the end of this week, there will probably be at LEAST 2100 people who didn't get THAT memo. (Current stats at Hey Jackass: 2066) Oh, well . . . Rome didn't burn in a day.

But for the 2022 Winter Games, I like the idea of a Chicago style pentathlon. Four teams run the course in each heat. Each team would start off with 9 athletes, with double elimination rules in effect. Walking wounded will still be expected to complete the course.

1) 3k cross-country snowmobiling across a retention pond at a sewage treatment plant. The competitors snowmobiles could have big blades on the sides, like the chariot wheels in Ben-Hur.

2) 2k competitive looting on the Mag Mile, to be judged on technical achievement, artistic impression and value of merchandise stolen.

3) The team speed event, where the surviving athletes of each team strip a brand new Escalade to the frame. No style points will be awarded, scores to be based on raw times.

4) A 5k foot race through Englewood with $1000 worth of crack velcroed to the contestants. Scores result from best time combined with most "product" still in the contestants possession.

5) By this point, the starting field of 36 should be down to 4-7. A "Yo, Mamma!" dance-off/ rap video will be filmed. Chances are, more than just cameras will be shooting.

In the event of any ties/multiple survivors, the Law of Thunderdome will be the final judge.

"Rio's governor has declared a "state of calamity," a financial emergency, ahead of the games."

...and here is the first thing people see when they arrive at the airport. Policemen holding up a "WELCOME TO HELL" banner.

https://tinyurl.com/jktdys5

They they call a taxi -- to face --

Rio's 'highway of terror': Shooter takes aim at cars on 'Red Line' road that ALL Olympic athletes and fans must travel to get to games in Brazil

* Terrifying violence has spilled out from favelas to Red Line highway in Rio * The road is the only route from the city's airport to the Olympic village * Image has emerged of a shooter taking aim at cars passing down road* He appears to be holding a semi-automatic rifle with a holographic sight* Highway has been blighted by shootings, car jackings and hostage takings

"The 13-mile [elevated -- no escape] expressway runs from Rio's international airport into the city, and is in the most part lined with sprawling favela shanty towns which are dangerous no-go zones controlled by heavily-armed drugs gangs."

There were many payout-payoffs for the Dalympics. Schemes that were planned a decade ago. That Reese Hospital property wound up costing more to maintain and demolish after loosing the bid and wouldn't you know it, a Rahm insider bought it. The taxpayer lost big time on every phase from beginning to end of that Olympic bid. Rio should just call itself Chicago, as I'm sure there were many of Chicago pols had invested down there as well. Keeping in mind that Daley/Rahms corruption in the pre and post Olympic bid was not "Intended", to deceive or penalize taxpayers, it was only a miscalculation of careless investments.

Even though Rio continues to decay, it's very much like Chicago;- Murder capitols- Bodies always washing ashore- Rampant youth crime- Massive civic corruption- Governed by a Democratic system

"We should have turned Michael Reese into a homeless shelter. Each room had a bed and bathroom, with on site kitchen and plenty of land."

7/07/2016 06:51:00 AM

Rooms also complied with wider doors, handrails in bathrooms, emergency call buttons, etc. You could have had one heck of an infirmary, too, with what's there, probably with just a P.A. and a good APN most of the time. Place probably had full Wi-Fi already.

Great idea! Not the best area for safe access to stores, etc., but enough different wings and buildings to say "Quiet elderly here, peaceful disabled there, younger people off street with bad alcohol/drug problems and mentals over here on the other side, lower down and near the loading dock/sally port for the wagon. Break it up a little & staff as needed, and everyone is safer.

Lot of folks just want a bed, chair, table, place to keep their things -- eat, shower, clean clothes, rest. Look out window.

Daley could not have grasped this...

...and how many other smaller hospitals have we lost to the "developers?"

Crime? 49 policemen killed so far this year. Huge areas, the favelas, are "no-go zones." Only road from the airport is a 13-mile shooting gallery.

Beaches? The place is a huge garbage dump and open sewer. Body parts washing up on Copacabana -- human waste, used syringes and hospital discards, you name it. New incurable "superbugs" also found there.

Hookers alarmed at the low ticket sales are lowering prices already, buy-me-get-one-free, etc. Cheap to pay for some incurable disease.

Local residents -- one man had to lay on his floor for three days during a gun battle between gangs and police -- are saying "Don't come."

A lot of the venues and transportation projects are not even finished -- and may never be. The State Of Rio has so little money it can't buy gas for police cars or even toilet paper for the stations. Police helicopter is grounded. Absolutely no security -- reporters were able to drive around "restricted areas" for hours without once being stopped or questioned.

Rio is now messing with their bus routes, trying to impede travel from the favelas to the downtown area. Trouble is that ordinary people who work downtown at making coffee and cleaning floors and so forth are now having to wait hours and hours for a bus, and walk long distances. They just love this.

The pickpockets and purse-snatchers and drug dealers and so forth don't need the bus. They just carjack someone and pack in, or zoom through traffic 2-deep on stolen motorbikes.

The impeachment of Brazil's President will begin shortly after the 17 days of the Olympics. A little, uh, "political uncertainty" going on too...

"What was that movie with "Rowdy Roddy" Piperand Keith David back int eh early 80's?Alien M/Fers on Earth wearing stolen human skinand all the billboards have subliminal messages...

"Spend""Consume""Breed"

7/07/2016 12:45:00 AM

"OBEY!" was a hot one.

"Night Of The Living Dead?" I forget. You had to have special sunglasses to see all the skull-faces and subversive messages all around you...without the glasses, everything looked normal as the takeover continued.

I get it mixed up with "Invasion Of The Body-Snatchers." Was that the one where trucks were sneaking in loads of "pods" which would then hatch into mindless-follower people?

I wonder if GSSP is hauling "pods" in at night to cause more trouble tomorrow. No reason to run empty if you can help it, huh?

The International Olympic Committee has since been shown to be a corrupt group that lives for bribes. I am glad this town did not get the bid. It will be interesting on the coming events in Rio, one of the most violent towns in the world that even the army can't patrol. Now with ZIKA ? The waters off of the beach are polluted , badly contaminated with feces and other waste. Now how in the world will they hold water events in a sewer?

I remember about a year before this was going down, they had us doing all kindsof mission's in the area's of Michael Reese and Washington pk protecting thesefuck's who were realestate hustling, fuckin slime bags! I'm glad they lost thereass!

A lot of Chicago movers & shakers were PISSEDabout you Coppers laughing up your sleeves at THEIR failed Olympic attempt. (while danglingYOUR pension money to "grease the skids" - courtesy of Davis-Vanecko Realty)

A lot of "insiders" caught with their pantsdown after snatching up every parcel of landaround the planned Olympic venues.

M/Fers were MAD about facing having to take a bath...

>Seeing Winged Dollar Signs flying away<

Had Chicago gotten the bid, you would have seen all manner of shady,connect criminal m/fers whose silhouettes won'teven throw a shadow at high noon - sneaking around with bulgingarchitect portfolios crammed full of uncut sheets new issue$100K U.S. Gold Certificates because that would've been the onlyto keep enough folding money in circulation to keep the churls from rising up and taking scalps like they really should.